Three months ago, voters, many angry over the loss of education funding, made history by booting from office a sitting governor many viewed as responsible for the loss of thousands of teaching jobs and classroom programs for their children. On Wednesday, newly installed Gov. Tom Wolf sought to capitalize on that sentiment to achieve a campaign promise of taxing natural gas production. Standing in a Chester County elementary school classroom, Wolf proposed an unspecified boost in spending on public education by making natural gas drillers who operate in the state's Marcellus Shale regions pay more in taxes and fees. "There is a great opportunity here in terms of matching this...

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